Discoveries from Russia World Cinema

Taptal is the name of the main character, a middle-aged woman played by Tatyana Legantieva. She lives in a village with her parents and her brother's family. For the past 5 years, she has been dreaming of changing her life, but she doesn't know where to start... On her birthday, she makes a wish to get married. That same evening, she hears a horoscope that says she needs to act right now! And then she sees an ad for the reality show "The Bachelor" on NVK "Sakha". Love decides to go to Yakutsk and find her soulmate on the reality show. She is not stopped even by the fact that her vacation was suddenly cancelled...

The New Year's musical film has everything that Andersen described in his famous fairy tale "The Snow Queen", but with the attributes of the modern world. The Snow Queen is a powerful woman who charms the young man Kai and promises to make a pop star out of him.

A girl seeks for help: her brother took up with the wrong guys. An investigation leads the Watchers to an underground casino, where rich youngsters gamble for poor people’s lives as a stake…

About the incredible adventures of hallucinating teenagers from a children's colony, who, as a result of a scientific experiment by their teachers, end up in the "Wild West", among space monsters, in a world of fantastic nature and all sorts of political situations. Some become a cowboy, some become Hitler, some become Emperor Paul I, etc. Three colonists, with the assistance of one of the teachers, actively resist these experiments...

Short film created specifically for Auction 2019

West Belarus, October 1944. The German command is trying to prevent Soviet troops from entering East Prussia. In order to exclude the leakage of information about their plans, the Nazis use a new code, which is to be solved by Soviet radio operators. This is the task that Major-General Zharov and his subordinates receive. To protect the scouts ordered to a group of Captain Belov, which has already once saved the general from the attack of the German landing force.

A young student Irina comes to a small sea shore town to spend some time with her grandmother.

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Конец 1943 года. Подразделение советских солдат во главе с молодым, ещё не нюхавшим войны, младшим лейтенантом останавливается в глухой деревеньке, стоящей в стороне от главных дорог. Её жители за всё время войны ни разу не видели немцев, поэтому внезапное появление здесь отборных диверсантов СС стало для всех полной неожиданностью.

Based on Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Orchard is an eccentric comedy about class struggles in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. An aging aristocratic lady returns home to face the loss of her magnificent cherry orchard estate.

Karina comes from Moscow to a small Tatar town to visit her parents. The father treats his daughter for her way of life. Karina's mom shares a secret with her, which becomes a serious opportunity to take revenge on her father for all the insults.

After the start of the Special Military Operation, Steven Seagal personally communicated with the victims of Ukrainian nationalists and saw with his own eyes what was happening in Donbass. He became one of the few who met with captured nationalists from the «AZOV» battalion and visited the sites of their crimes against civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk. His visit to Donbass attracted the attention of the world community and the media. Unique footage and eyewitness accounts are in the documentary film «In the Name of Justice».

British magician and card shark to the world’s elite, Drummond Money-Coutts, embarks on an international journey, going from London to Paris with a final destination of Bangkok. In this one-off special, DMC explores the thrilling and high stakes world of card tricks. Through breath-taking stunts and street demonstrations, Drummond reveals the secrets behind advanced card play, card cheating and the dark art of card magic. This show ends with his most dangerous trick to date!

The artists of the front acting brigade are so easy to take. On their side is a creative approach, courage, beauty, dexterity and ... a cello case full of explosives. They are ready for anything to help the front, even sacrifice themselves. The only thing the young playwright Leonid Kruchinin is not ready to give up is his love for the unearthly Lara Vishnevskaya, the star of the Soviet screen. To save her life, he is ready to rewrite his best novel over and over again. A novel about love, war, a front-line acting brigade, and sabotage inconceivable by the audacity of sabotage.

Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while, she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared. She finds herself into a series of people that have been taking care of the dog for years in that same apartment, creating a weird community around this strange absence of the owner.

Filmed theatre play based on 'Rocco and his brothers"

Documentary film about ethnic cleansing in the Prigorodny district in October-November 1992.

One Kuleshov film that might be of great interest to scholars is The Breakthrough (Proryv, 1930). It was made in 48 hours. Naturally, such an unusual work did not stay in cinemas for a long time.

Near the walls of the Kremlin, a real duel unfolds between two former friends over a girl of exceptional beauty and supernatural powers named Olesya.... But who is Olesya?... a 16-year-old feeble-minded girl, the week-long wife, a blessed fool with superpowers, able to light up lamps and electrocute in the bedroom. She is a literary character living in 21st century Moscow, unaware of her own beauty and power. For the two young and rich playboys, Olesya's 'spicy make-up' takes on a whole new meaning. But what can this pretentious duel change in an iPhone-world full of infidelity, vanity, and cruelty?

The action takes place at the beginning of the 16th century. The rich Belarusian lands that are part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, located at the intersection of trade routes, are attacked by Tatars. With rapid raids, the Crimean cavalry reaches all Belarusian cities without exception. The conquerors stormed the fortress, robbed, stole the population into slavery, leaving behind ashes. On the way, the troops of the Crimean Tatars, among the few who have not yet been defeated, stand up to the brave squad and brave residents of the city of Slutsk, whose defense after the death of the husband of Prince Semyon Olelkovich was led by Princess Anastasia Slutskaya.

About the Soviet railway workers who heroically kept watch on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

2015 movie sequel

Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”

Однажды одинокий дьявол, безумно любящий свою бабушку, проснулся в плохом настроении и сказал: "Ненавижу утро. Чтоб оно пропало!" И пропало утро, наступила тьма, но мир продолжал жить своей жизнью...

The play was directed by Mark Zakharov and is based on the play "Brother Chichikov," inspired by N.V. Gogol's poem "Dead Souls." The performance intertwines the adventures of Chichikov with the phantasmagoric occurrences involving him and Pannochka.

How to live in abandoned mining villages around Vorkuta.

A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts.

"Jisai" translates from ancient Japanese as "sacrificial scapegoat." Wise Japanese emperors, knowing that their well-being and health belonged not only to themselves but to the entire nation, kept a special person with them who took upon himself all the troubles and misfortunes that threatened his master. This self-sacrificing person bore the proud nickname of Jisai, and it was he who bore all the blows that fate generously bestowed upon the emperor. A well-read Russian businessman, having learned about this ancient tradition, also decided to create a similar "lightning rod" for himself in order to protect himself from all kinds of misfortunes. His Dzisay is an unemployed, "former intellectual," doomed to receive blows and beatings instead of his enterprising master...

Grandfather Mazai saves not only hares, but also other famous heroes — Mumu, the Persian princess, Robinson, and even the Titanic.

Russia, 1736. The sixth year of Anna Ioannovna's reign. To strengthen the family of her female ancestors, the Miloslavskys, the Empress bequeaths the throne to the future son of her niece Anna Leopoldovna. There has never been such a thing in history that a non-existent child has become the heir. Meanwhile, for the sake of a worthy military alliance with Austria, the Empress trains Anna Leopoldovna and Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brauschweig. The mother of the future heir does not like the groom, and this is used by Peter, the offspring of Biron, and the Saxon envoy Moritz. The hunt for the princess begins between these two knights.

A fascinating journey of young people on the boat. However, a pleasant trip turns around when the young man finds out that his own wife is "resting" on the same boat ...

What makes a person, an artist who has several decades of international cinematic success behind him, break down and start a new life? People's artist of Russia, winner of many domestic and foreign awards, world-famous film Director Andrey Konchalovsky entered the theater world in 1987, staging the Opera "Eugene Onegin" in Italy at the La Scala theater... In the film, viewers will be able to trace the creative – almost twenty years! – the path of the Director in the performing arts, to see unique moments of rehearsals, fragments of his theatrical productions – the Opera "the Queen of spades" with outstanding artists Mirella Freni and Vladimir Atlantov, the acclaimed performance "Miss Julie" on the stage of the Moscow theater on Malaya Bronnaya, "War and peace", staged at the Mariinsky theater, the Metropolitan, as well as fragments of Grand outdoor performances staged by A. S. Konchalovsky.

A fairy tale about a naughty boy and his parents.

Two old ladies live in a French chateau. When one of them dies, her sister, who lives in Moscow, inherits the property, which soon ends up in the hands of Japanese businessmen.

Wife of a young successful businessman Philip dies. He body is found near a cliff. Tatiana begins her investigation.

The film novel directed by Andrey Konchalovsky and written by Yuri Nagibin tells about the life and creative path of the brilliant Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Love and torment of creativity, periods of hopelessness and triumphs, longing for the Motherland and faith in its future, reflected in the composer's music, are intertwined in the novel with the tragic events in Russia of the first half of the twentieth century, with the fate of people close to Rachmaninoff...

A story about the work of the elite segment of the sex industry in modern Russia on behalf of the representatives of the illegal business themselves.

Love needs permanent grooming. For the sake of love, a nice young guy has decided to increase his sexuality.

Svetlana is a young teacher from the Russian countryside. By the will of fate, she finds herself in St. Petersburg, where she meets a successful oilman, Fedor, and marries him. But soon Svetlana realizes that she lives in a golden cage, and her husband is not at all what he seems. Everything changes when she meets Alexander, a young and honest emergency room doctor.…

Tired of looking for housing, a couple rents a one-room apartment near a construction site. But this is a trifle, in comparison with what they have to find in this apartment.

In a forest river, hunters find the body of a young singer named Yanka Diaghilev. From that moment on, a confusing chronicle of the last day in the girl's life begins, during which she will travel a long way - from the city to the dacha, and then into the thicket to the river. On this day, Yanka will have time to see and talk with many people, real and imaginary, even with those who are no longer alive. It seems that Yankee's next step is about to shed light on the circumstances of her mysterious death: hopeless love, arguments with loved ones, disagreements with herself, strange meetings with strangers in the forest.

Mary believes that her husband is using her for their own benefit — and not without reason. She catches him with his mistress — not even one, but several, to see that he is using drugs and is associated with criminal figures, which leads some of his darkest financial affairs.

This short film tells about the past, present and future of the capital's subway. It shows the labor of subway builders, new stations still under construction. Dmitry Gayev, the head of the Moscow Metro, shares his dreams and plans for the future.

Talented but failed playwright Mitya discovers uninvited guests in his apartment — wayward 13-year-old Nika and her older sister, actress Dasha. Trying to evict the new tenants, Mitya realizes that he has become a ghost, and Nika is the only one who sees him. Will he be able to fulfill his idea, return to life and find his love?

Five stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age.

This is cartoon parable. Despite the fact that mankind is killed, the war still continues. War continued with automated system left by people. One of the last surviving bomber and its pilot still performs its task. The city is dead for a long time. Dead people who built it. Dead people who gave the order to destroy the city. And war will continue until subside echo of humanity.But life will always find a way to survive. Cassette bomb submunitions became a fortress for the grass.

Two escaped prisoners on the run in eastern Kentucky encounter the spirit of a witch who is hell-bent on revenge.

Ivan Tsarevich and his friends go to an exhibition of wonders from the entire fairy-tale world.

The body of one of the club members was found at an elite paintball base near St. Petersburg. He was executed the way traitors and apostates were executed in Ancient Russia. Similar incidents are occurring on the territory of several neighboring States. And their victims are people who violated the oath they once took.

Выйдя из тюрьмы, Клим Блинов устраивается на работу охранником к старому приятелю Долбинскому, владельцу клуба (вертепа для бандитов с массажистками). Вскоре Клим понимает, что творится неладное: появился невидимка, похищающий туфли и подвешивающий посетителей к потолку. Ночью охранник встречается с призраком. Оказывается, его зовут Александр и до трагической гибели во время революции 1917 года он был дворянином и служил в Департаменте Юстиции…